Still working on my show. I'm watching more of it than other shows in my "to watch" list, so comparatively it's going at a decent clip... but I've been playing some videogames recently and most of my anime viewing is behind where it should be

Who You Think Assigned Your Show: no idea...I had an idea but have since forgotten

Who You Think You Assigned A Show For: already confirmed

Series Assigned/Watched: New Getter Robo

Episode Count: 13

Episode Length: 22-24 minutes

Dubbed or Subbed:Subbed

Favorite Character(s): Raikou, Ryoma, Hayato

Least Favorite Character(s): Michiru

Favorite/Least Favorite Protagonist: Favorite is a diffucult pick, as all three of my favorites are all protagonists, least favorite pro is Benkei

Favorite/Least Favorite Antagonist: Favorite antagonist is Jikoku-Ten, as short lived as he was, and Seimei being least favorite

Favorite Episode: The two episode arc with the timeshift to the past to the Heian period of Japanese history

Favorite Moment: Hard to pick one, every time the Getter Beam was used

Least Favorite Episode: The last one, it wasn't satisfying enough to end the series and left some things unfinished

Least Favorite Moment: the very end, as it didn't completely explain what happened

Favorite Opening/Closing Theme: Just one each, but the OP is great -

Most Episodes Watched In A Day: 4 (ep. 5-8)

Other notable comments:I was going to watch the entire series by a few weeks ago, but after watching up to episode eight, the rest were linked to NGRA, or the original NGR, so I had to sign up for Netflix and wait for disc delivery.

REVIEW

New Getter Robo is one of those mecha series where the mecha isn't emphasized as much as the characters or what's going on outside of the robot (such as Gurren Lagann) and that's how I like my mecha. I'm not exactly a mecha fan, but for both Secret Santa Exchanges, I have slid into watching a mecha (Heroman last year, which was excellent).

NGR is basically about three guys who are pretty much slicked into piloting one of three Gets. Ryoma, Hayato, and Benkei, who are all very different in personality and design, end up meshing fairly well while piloting the Getter Robo. The plot is to eradicate the Oni, enemies who are basically demons, and eventually revealed that they are being sent, as well as one of the antagonists, Seimei, but four main antagonists, the four heavenly gods.

The professor heading researched of the operation, Professor Saotome, had his son killed in the Getter right before picking Ryoma off of the street, the first of the three recruits. Hayato, the terrorist was picked second, and Benkei, the ravaging wild man turned peaceful monk, third.The characters were all fantastic, as was the plot, premise, and the development, especially through a series of timejumps using the secret powers of the Getter Robo, Getter Rays, which end up holding a power to dangerous to contain. The only thing I disliked was the explainable happenings within the last episode, rushing to fit everything in without explanations for specific actions and sequences. Overall, it was much more promising while watching the Heian period episodes, which I would have loved more of.

Least Favorite Episode: The last one, it wasn't satisfying enough to end the series and left some things unfinished

Least Favorite Moment: the very end, as it didn't completely explain what happened

New Getter Robo is one of those mecha series where the mecha isn't emphasized as much as the characters or what's going on outside of the robot (such as Gurren Lagann) and that's how I like my mecha. I'm not exactly a mecha fan, but for both Secret Santa Exchanges, I have slid into watching a mecha (Heroman last year, which was excellent).

NGR is basically about three guys who are pretty much slicked into piloting one of three Gets. Ryoma, Hayato, and Benkei, who are all very different in personality and design, end up meshing fairly well while piloting the Getter Robo. The plot is to eradicate the Oni, enemies who are basically demons, and eventually revealed that they are being sent, as well as one of the antagonists, Seimei, but four main antagonists, the four heavenly gods.

The professor heading researched of the operation, Professor Saotome, had his son killed in the Getter right before picking Ryoma off of the street, the first of the three recruits. Hayato, the terrorist was picked second, and Benkei, the ravaging wild man turned peaceful monk, third.The characters were all fantastic, as was the plot, premise, and the development, especially through a series of timejumps using the secret powers of the Getter Robo, Getter Rays, which end up holding a power to dangerous to contain. The only thing I disliked was the explainable happenings within the last episode, rushing to fit everything in without explanations for specific actions and sequences. Overall, it was much more promising while watching the Heian period episodes, which I would have loved more of.

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Yeah, things like that and generally the show slowing back down to a jog any time it started to break out into a run hobble NGR. Fortunately Getter Robo Armageddon has none of these flaws, and if you like NGR you'll love GRA.

Anyway what happened at the end is that Getter Rays are basically pure evolution, and the new Getter basically entered into true space where it fights alongside every other iteration of the Getter Robo (and team) from across multiple universes and times against The Powers That Be. Getter Robo has multiple continuities, you just saw one.

I wasn't expecting this series to be set in the same world of Sword Art online but it was confirmed later in the series when Haruyuki looked up the Nerv gear as previous generation Tech. Wasn't expecting that one. But it made sense given the similarities in the game world driven plot.

REVIEW

Accel World is a VR game world in which people who are called Burst linkers fight in duels to earn points and level up. once all their points are gone they lose the ability to use Accel World forever. With the burst link it is possible for people to enhance their abilities in the real world aswell as Accel World.
If they abuse it that is.

In Accel World there are 7 Burst linkers that have reached level 9 the max level is 10. The 7 at level 9 are known as the 7 Kings
of Accel World. And amongst them they have a treaty to not fight using their legions. as each king has a legion of other Burst linkers that serve under them. Only the black king is against the treaty and want to reach level 10 and complete the game. Which the prize is meeting the creator of the game which is called Brain burst. and the battle field of Brain burst is Accel World.

At first the show starts out kinda slow but by around episode 4 it started getting more interesting. Then somethings started to annoy me here and there like Haruyuki's poor me attitude, and how He, Taku and Chiyu kept being moronic over certain things. lol. but overall I enjoyed it. The other characters were all more interesting to me then the main three protagonists though. while all three were likeable they could also be very annoying aswell.

The best character is easily Black Lotus. There are a lot of things likeable about Haruyuki, but all his emo whining made me face palm. Taku was probably the best of the three main protagonists though. But the Red king Scarlet Rain was my second favorite character after Black lotus.

But once the antagonist Nomi was introduced my hate gauge was instantly filled. This character made me want to get a piece of tree bark and stab him in the face with it until i no longer had to look at him. lol Which made the ending where his pansy ass got rendered in two that much more satisfying. I out loud spoke the words die you little bitch as he met his end if you watch it or have seen it already then you understand that sentiment .

That Kuroyukihime is actually Kirito/Asuna's daughter since it's set in the future. But I'm not too sure on the legitimacy of that considering I'm not far enough in the Accel World LN. Also the author did a side story where Kirito and Harayuki actually fought one on one KIrito with a sword and Harayuki as Silver Crow.

Favorite/Least Favorite Protagonist: Saten was my favourite and I liked her "arc" the best of the series. Least favourite I hate to say is probably Misaka. I didn't care about her at all, mostly because I don't feel like they really developed her character at all, and she always just was like ok I'm going to beat you without really trying in 30 seconds. I would have prefered if she struggled a bit more and had more moments of growth, like Saten. That being said she has her cute moments and I don't outright hate her.

Favorite/Least Favorite Antagonist: I guess there was only really one in the end, that crazy daughter of the scientist guy. I don't remember her name at the moment.

Favorite Episode: The final episode finally started to capitalize on the promise/potential I felt I saw in the show. But it was the final episode so that just made me mad too. Also episode 18 when Kuroko plays matchmaker. I actually laughed a lot.

I actually lost it near the beginning of episode 18 when Kuroko and Misaka are trailing the head dorm lady to see who she is interested in, when walked in to a legit Pizza Hut (icon and all, product placement for the win) and then comes out with lots of pizza, Kurko exclaims that she must be seeing an Italian, and then has an epiphany where she says 'HIS NAME IS MARCO!" I dunno it made me laugh out loud for reals.

Least Favorite Episode: I dunno there were a lot that I just found boring. I'd say more than half the series falls into this category.

Least Favorite Moment: This isn't a particular moment per se, but really I felt like this show had lots of potential and neat ideas and they didn't even try to touch them until the final episode.

Other notable comments: Perhaps this series was too overhyped for me. I struggled to finish it and feel that while there were lots of cool underlying ideas, they weren't touched or they were hastily glossed over. I have never seen anything else in the INDEX universe. Perhaps that is another problem.

REVIEW

So A Certain Scientific Railgun is basically the story of Misaka Mikoto and her friends, and I suppose it's more about their day to day life than action oriented stuff. They all live in Academy City, a giant educational place with like 80% of it's 2.8 million residents or something being students. Most people go to Academy City to work on their abilities. People with abilities are known as Espers. There is a ranking system for all Espers, ranging from level 0 to 5, with 5 being the highest, and at the time of the show, only seven level 5s exist, Misaka being one of them. At the beginning she is already level 5, though it's mentioned a few times that she worked really hard to attain that level. You don't actually get to see any of that though, not even in flashbacks (I would have liked to see some more backstory but that's just me) Anyways, like I said this is the story of Misaka and her friends, and their escapades. That's pretty much it. The first half of the the series is dedicated to a pretty serious story that boils down to the haves (Espers with high ability power) and have nots (espers with like one or zero ability level) Saten, one of the 4 main protagonists is a Level 0, she has no power at all that she knows of, and despite her few years in Academy City she remains a 0. Of course she just wants to be like the others, and the arc focuses on her struggles to come to grips with the fact that she isn't like her friends, and probably never will be. It was very moving to watch her go through this and I really felt for her. It was easily my favourite part of the series and had it ended after the resolution of her "story" or whatever I would have been left with a better taste in my mouth than I was some 12 episodes later. The second half of the series is filled with more random episodes that were dedicated to random other characters in the universe. Some were kind of interesting I guess, but single episodes didn't really do the interesting one's justice. I did like episode 18 though, where the girls played matchmaker. I also really enjoyed the final episode, which concluded a longer overlapping arc that started in the first half of the series. However it felt weird because the final two or so episodes suddenly picked up the story from episode 12, and everything inbetween was just slice of life stuff... I didn't see the point of that really.

My main beef with this show was that there was potential and it really wasn't utilized at all. The four protagonists: Misaka, Kuroko, Uiharu, and Saten had nice chemistry and I found them all to be likeable enough but they never worked together to do anything really until the final episode. Sure they might be together while solving a mystery or dealing with some problem, but for most of the show, Misaka just goes out and fights by herself, which I totally hated. Mostly because she never had any problem dispatching whomever it was she was facing. The only time I was like OMG was when she battled Touma and then instead of rocking her shit (which she deserved) he just rolled over for laughs . Misaka grows a bit by the end, and I didn't dislike her nearly as much as I did at the beignning but for a show with her nickname in the title, they did a poor job on making me totally love her.

The real problem might be the simple fact that I haven't seen any other INDEX shows. I got the feeling that the show assumed the audience was already familiar with the characters and the universe etc. That's a terrible assumption to make in my book, because I felt the show suffered from it. I certainly thought lots of stuff in the show was downright boring, and I think there's a high possibility that it's because I just wasn't picking up on what was goin on and didn't catch the references that were being made. I'll parallel it with my experience of when I watched Jay and Silent Bob Strike back in theaters. I had just seen Clerks and Dogma, two pretty good Kevin Smith films, and was kinda into his stuff at the time, and boom Strike Back came out. I went to go see it and was sorely disappointed in it. It wasn't what I was expecting and I just didn't get it. Later after I had seen every film in Smith's catalog up until Strike Back, I rewatched Strike Back, and it was just so much better because I picked up on the little things. It wasn't a great movie or anything, but I enjoyed it more and was able to appreciate it for the masturbatory film it was. I have a feeling if I were to do the same with the INDEX stuff I'd like Railgun a lot more than I did. But I haven't seen any of it, so alas...

Storyline - 6 the meaningless battles and stuff felt meaningless and I wasn't drawn into the characters enough to appreciate the episodic nature of the show.

Storyline Progression - 5 I didn't like the layout of the series at all they should have just taken the first half and shown that second, and piled up all the random crap in the beginning.

Plot - 7 there was some interesting stuff going on, and it wasn't hard to follow, but it was broken up terribly.

Characters design - 8 I really liked the character designs. Saten and Misaka are my two favourite from a design point

Characters personality - 7 I found all the main protagonists likeable enough, Kuroko could get super annoying sometimes, and Uihara too, Saten was the most real and best of them all IMO

Characters development - 5 Saten's story was great, but there was so many characters they didn't develop at all, probably because it's a spinoff, but for views like myself, there is a lot to be desired.

Acting - 8 I really liked the acting it was all very solid.

Subbing (if applicable) - uh I'm not familiar with japanese how am I supposed to rate this? lol um 8 I guess because pirates.

Soundtrack - 5 forgettable stuff all of it. I'm really big on music in anime this one is well, forgettable.

Rewatchability - 6 I can't see myself watching it again unless I see other INDEX stuff so I suppose I'd be willing to give it another chance at some point, but on it's own merit...

Lasting Appeal - 6 outside of a few moments the show didn't wow me at all.

OVERALL SCORE: 6 with so much cool stuff they could have worked with, they didn't really utilize it enough! Big let down for me. I know many people here love it, and I'm honestly not trying to troll, I just couldn't get into it. It go so bad that at one point I seriously considered just not finishing it because I could really have cared less what happened, but that's all after episode 12. I the first half of the series was solid stuff. The second half was mostly unbearable and believe it or not I took a 5 day break between episode 23 and 24... I think there was supposed to be a cliff hanger... but I wasn't cliffing or hanging. I wish I had finished it sooner tho because ep 24 was pretty DECE. That's slang for decent.

Favorite/Least Favorite Protagonist: Favorite was Misaki Kirihara. Hei is a close second. I loved the detective guy though Gai kurasawa. dude was comedy.

Favorite/Least Favorite Antagonist: Favorite antagonist was Wei zhijun. Dude was kind of a bastard, but was a badass.

Favorite Episode: NA/ none of them were bad.

Favorite Moment: when Misaki owned the director in the end.

Least Favorite Episode: didn't have one.

Least Favorite Moment: NA

Favorite Opening/Closing Theme:

Most Episodes Watched In A Day: 15

Other notable comments: I know there is a season 2. so i will watch that at some point this year.

REVIEW

Darker than Black has a little bit of Sci fi, and suspense and action to it. As well as mission impossible like covert style plot. As people known as contractors who have special powers are working behind the scenes doing various things while the world governments try to cover it up. A syndicate working in the shadows using the contractor known as BK201 AKA The Black Reaper to carry out it's missions for them to dispose ofother contractors or obtain various things for them. The chief of the foreign affairs for the japanese police Misaki kirihara is the head of the task force that investigates cases involving contractors and ends up getting caught up in a case that involves the Syndicate, MI6, The CIA, The KGB and pretty much every other spy organization on the planet. Which ends with nothing less then the entire city being at risk with the decision of one man being what will spell doom for the contractors or the normal humans. The Black Reaper Hei. Otherwise known as BK201.

Just out of curiosity, have you ever seen A Certain Magical Index? A Certain Scientific Railgun is a spinoff of A Certain Magical Index and personally I think it makes way more sense to watch at least the first season of ACMI before. You get an introduction to the world that they take place in and many of the characters. I personally preferred ACMI for what it's worth. Protagonists in these kinds of shows tend to bother me a bit, but I like Touma, who's the main character.

Just out of curiosity, have you ever seen A Certain Magical Index? A Certain Scientific Railgun is a spinoff of A Certain Magical Index and personally I think it makes way more sense to watch at least the first season of ACMI before. You get an introduction to the world that they take place in and many of the characters. I personally preferred ACMI for what it's worth. Protagonists in these kinds of shows tend to bother me a bit, but I like Touma, who's the main character.

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I have not, and I addressed it a few times in the review! You hurted my feelings bob...

Just out of curiosity, have you ever seen A Certain Magical Index? A Certain Scientific Railgun is a spinoff of A Certain Magical Index and personally I think it makes way more sense to watch at least the first season of ACMI before. You get an introduction to the world that they take place in and many of the characters. I personally preferred ACMI for what it's worth. Protagonists in these kinds of shows tend to bother me a bit, but I like Touma, who's the main character.

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I have not, and I addressed it a few times in the review! You hurted my feelings bob...

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I could only skim it since I'm in the middle of FOOTBALL for the next 10 hours.